Archive for the ‘Monday Night Seminar’ Category

A McLuhan Monday Night Seminar in 1973 In the Garden with the Guru Adventures with Marshall McLuhan By Bob Rodgers – January-February 2008 A six-foot-high hedge separated me from the garden next door but not from its voices. It was my first Sunday morning in the house I sublet on Wells Hill Avenue by […]

2016-17 Theme: The New Shape of Things: Big Data, Big Stories Our theme last year was “City as Classroom” where we sought insight and experience that the city has to offer to inform and stimulate. This year we go beyond the city in exploring the extent to which McLuhan’s adage that “the medium is the […]

The New Shape of Things: Big Data, Big Stories Inaugural Monday Night Seminar, Monday November 7th, 6:00 PM The McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto, is pleased to announce a Fall 2016/Winter 2017 rollout of events. Weekly sessions carry on the “Monday Night Seminar” tradition of […]

PEOPLE ARE THE TERRITORY – How do we overcome the boundaries? MONDAY, 2 MAY, 2016, 6:00 – 8:00 PM With Shauna Brail, Atom Egoyan, Khalil Z. Shariff SHAUNA BRAIL is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto Studies Program and a Research Associate in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School […]

BREAKDOWN AS BREAKTHROUGH – Does the Imagination Have Ethics? MONDAY, 25 APRIL, 2016, 6:00 – 8:00 PM With Martin Arnold, Julia Moulden, Diane Blake MARTIN ARNOLD is a musician based in Toronto. His notated compositions are performed nationally and internationally. Martin is also an active member of Toronto’s improvisation and experimental jazz/roots/rock communities performing on live electronics, banjo, melodica, and guitar. Martin lectures in Cultural Studies […]